With global surface air temperature rising rapidly, extensive research effort has been
dedicated to assessing the consequences of this change for wildlife. While impacts on the …

Interest in studying cognitive ecology has moved the field of animal cognition into the wild.
Animals face many challenges such as finding food and other resources, avoiding and …

Most animals confine their activities to a discrete home range, long assumed to reflect the
fitness benefits of obtaining spatial knowledge about the landscape. However, few empirical …

Highlights•Western Australian magpies perform worse in a learning task when heat
stressed.•Individual performance was repeatable within, but not between, conditions.•Birds …

Identifying the causes and fitness consequences of intraspecific variation in cognitive
performance is fundamental to understand how cognition evolves. Selection may act on …

Conservation translocations are an important conservation tool commonly employed to
augment declining or reestablish extirpated populations. One goal of augmentation is to …

Measures of cognitive performance, derived from psychometric tasks, have yielded
important insights into the factors governing cognitive variation. However, concerns remain …

To understand the evolution of cognitive abilities, we need to understand both how selection
acts upon them and their genetic (co) variance structure. Recent work suggests that there …

Cognitive performance varies widely across animal species, but the processes underlying
cognitive evolution remain poorly known. For cognitive abilities to evolve, performance must …

Cognitive biases for encoding spatial information (orientation strategies) in relation to self
(egocentric) or landmarks (allocentric) differ between species or populations according to …